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Today, Congressman James R. Walkinshaw (D-VA), a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, issued the following statement condemning OMB Director Russ Vought’s escalating threats to carry out mass firings of federal workers in the event of a government shutdown:
“Russ Vought is giving away the game. He knows he has no legal authority to carry out mass firings, and his actions are illegal. For him and Trump, their shutdown is a weapon to inflict cruelty and dismantle the federal workforce at any cost.”
House Democratic leaders are holding firm in opposition to the Republicans’ spending bill, brushing aside new threats from the Trump ad
After congressional appropriations lapsed and a government shutdown began at midnight on Oct.
Since January, our region has been under attack by the Trump administration. Agencies have been shuttered, federal employees have been subjected to RIFs, DOGE has unleashed chaos, and federal service has been demagogued. And now we are in a GOP Shutdown.
In an op-ed published by MSNBC on September 30, 2025, Congressman James Walkinshaw (VA-11) underscored how Russ Vought’s directive to fire federal workers during a shutdown is political intimidation, unconstitutional, and not valid administrative guidance.
Read the op-ed below or online at MSNBC.
Washington, D.C. – Congressman James R. Walkinshaw (VA-11), a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, today condemned the Trump Administration’s decision to defund the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE), warning that the move represents a direct attack on independent oversight and accountability in government.
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James R. Walkinshaw picked the rich blue shade on his office walls 16 years ago, but on behalf of his then-boss, Rep. Gerald E.
WASHINGTON – Today, Representative James Walkinshaw (VA-11.), a member of the House Oversight Committee, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), along with Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) Ranking Member Gary Peters (D-Mich.), led 17 of their colleagues in pressing the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for answers on its cancellation of the 2025 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS), an important tool for understanding and improving the federal workforce.